Back in Time 07-26-11

By NICKI BRUCE LOGAN Herald Lifestyles Editor

Published 1:00 pm, Tuesday, July 26, 2011

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July 26, 1941:

Abandonment of the two-year-old policy of giving Japan access to United States oil in order to prevent aggressive action in the Pacific was considered a distinct possibility now that Japanese forces have moved southward to occupy strategic military and naval bases in French Indo-China.•High water was moving down Runningwater Draw northeast of Plainview again. Water was over a bridge on the Olton-Dimmitt highway and moving toward Plainview at a rate of 4 mph.

•A golf tourney with a steak dinner as the prize was scheduled at Elmcrest Golf Course. Frank Day and C.E. McSwain were selected captains of the two teams.

July 25, 1961:

J.B. Wheeler will serve as judge for the Junior Rodeo parade.•It’s a small world. Dr. and Mrs. Roy McClung hear Plainview, Texas, plugged on the radio in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, where they were sightseeing a few days ago.

July 26, 1961:

Marilyn Coleman, Hale County 4-H Club member, was a winner at the District 4-H Dress Revue. The state dress revue will be held during the state fair in Dallas in October.•Fred Cargill, who lives at 2516 Wood, took first place in bull riding in the Fort Worth Junior Rodeo. He will compete in the Plainview Junior Rodeo along with Plainview’s J. Bassett Smith.

Harrell Minyard, 25, of Silverton walked away on his own power after being buried up to his neck by a wall of wheat. More than 100 men answered the call for help and, after a frantic hour of shoveling, freed Minyard.•The Jimmy Dean Pure Pork Sausage plant is the largest sausage plant in the U.S.

•Steve Rogers and Ham Rogers took the Plainview Country Club Partnership title with a score of 125.

July 25, 1991:

David Carver of Abernathy and Aaron Clark of Hale Center attended 4-H Electric Camp at Camp Scott Able near Cloudcroft, N.M.July 26, 1991: